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Also Known As Josephine Winder Jacobsen • Josephine Winder Boylan
Born August 19, 1908 • Canada
Died July 9, 2003 (aged 94) • Maryland
Title / Office poet laureate (1971-1973)
Notable Works “The Shade-Seller”
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